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The writer is a senior journalist in Kolkata.

Many of these institutions have worked in India for decades on difficult problems where government services were either inadequate or unavailable, such as leprosy and tuberculosis, healthcare and emergency relief. (Twitter)

Shikha Mukerjee | What's suspicious about overseas contributions?

For the MHA to tersely state that these institutions have been denied permission because of 'violations' is not...

7 Jan 2022 1:30 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (AFP)

Shikha Mukerjee | How the BJP has to fight harder to remain on top

Even the 11 Lok Sabha seats from the seven states in the Northeast plus the 14 Lok Sabha seats from Assam have begun to...

29 Dec 2021 2:23 AM IST

The Sharad Pawar-Mamata Banerjee meeting in Mumbai recently signalled a closing of ranks between two successful parties, both offshoots from the Congress and its formidable legacy. (PTI)

Shikha Mukerjee | As Indian polity matures, new politics is on the...

For both the smaller regional parties and the Congress, the BJP is the common enemy

6 Dec 2021 2:31 AM IST

More intriguing is how Mamata Banerjee has used the BSFs territorial expansion to make common cause with Punjab. (PTI)

Shikha Mukerjee | Crossing the line: Mamata transforms national role?

By pilfering the BJP's polished spiel rationalising defections as a necessary political move, the TMC is certainly being...

26 Nov 2021 2:30 AM IST

In the run-up to 2024, state elections will be fought by regional parties in defence of a multi-party, multi-location system of democratic politics. Representational Image. (AP)

Shikha Mukerjee | Clash of political cultures lies ahead as 2024 looms

Each election between now and 2024 will challenge the old federal design of authority, power, responsibility and...

11 Nov 2021 3:48 AM IST

Shikha Mukerjee | In democratic parties, why dissent equals...

Respecting the right of party functionaries to speak out, without incurring punishment ought to be the norm rather than...

28 Oct 2021 1:01 AM IST

The fact that a probe has been ordered itself brings into focus the widely held view that the ruling party at the Centre had been playing toppling games through which non-BJP governments were targeted and brought down. (Representational image: PTI file photo)

Shikha Mukerjee | As Cong crumbles, India's politics shifting to...

The 2019 Lok Sabha elections was high noon for the BJP

8 Oct 2021 2:55 AM IST

PM Modi was speaking at the release of the eighth installment of financial benefits under the PM-Kisan scheme via video conferencing. (Photo: PTI)

Shikha Mukerjee | Centre vs states: Key to anti-BJP unity of Opp.

There is more to winning in UP, Uttarakhand or Goa than merely putting a BJP man in the CM's chair

8 Sept 2021 2:44 AM IST

Shikha Mukerjee | Caste census and quotas: It's a political minefield

The Congress agreed to a caste census and then ended up by substituting it with the Socio-Economic and Caste Census in...

27 Aug 2021 1:20 AM IST

Mamata Banerjee. (PTI Photo)

Shikha Mukerjee | Mamata antidote' to Modi? Khela Hobe strikes a chord

It is not entirely incidental that she has taken possession of the empty slot of Opposition leader

11 Aug 2021 1:21 AM IST

Visual from PM Narendra Modis meet at Lok Kalyan Marg ahead of cabinet expansion. (ANI Photo)

Shikha Mukerjee | Managing expectations after Modi's big shuffle

The cabinet rejig focused on health, labour employment, education and petrol prices

14 July 2021 12:20 AM IST

These are extremely testing times for Ms Banerjee as the TMCs supremo as she has acquired a maturity in the 10 years that has added to the aura of her leadership.

Shikha Mukerjee | Mamata's priorities as TMC sets a new course

The changes that Mamata has made in filling leadership positions in the frontal organisations is her way of...

7 Jun 2021 12:19 AM IST